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interested in electricity, and bring him over, Here arc
great things for an American to do here. Well, I'll keep
this list and work it oft' somehow, Just one thing, Mar-
jorie: I'm eighty, and you're-what are you-twenty-
fivc ? Don't get through life so fast-you'll be dreadfully
bored by the time you're fifty, and there's no greater bore
than a bored person, Good-bye!" He held out his hand,
She took a long breath. Free!
And seizing his hand, she put it to her lips. Oh! He
was gazing at it-oh! Had her lips come off I And she
hurried out. The old boy! He was a darling to have
kept that list! A new leaf! She would go at once to
Bertie Curfew and get him to turn it over for her! The
expression in his eye last night!